Word: goldwaterism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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IN 1964 an eve-of-execution atmosphere enveloped San Francisco as the Republican Party convened to nominate its presidential candidate. Lyndon Johnson was at the zenith of his popularity. The G.O.P. was preparing to counter him with Barry Goldwater, an all-but-certain loser. The economy was booming, taxes were...
In 1968 the mood is palpably different. This time the Democrats are in decline, taxes and living costs are up, the cities are seething, and Viet Nam has turned into the nation's longest, least popular war. The heady awareness of opportunity that infects the entire G.O.P. assemblage is a...
Even the platform which the resolutions committee drafted, though admittedly a great deal more moderate than the so-called "Goldwater platform" of 1964, is a confused document, as platforms always are. And in calling for "de-Americanization" of the left than the average businessman-delegate to the Miami Convention. In...
Smith has attended every convention since 1944; he supported Dewey, Taft and Goldwater. He now "leans" toward Nixon, though "I'm not a zealot for him like some members of the delegation. I think that people who've been in the political process as I have are comfortable...
Republican delegates, who have begun arriving in droves in this vacationland, are a mixed lot. One out of five is a returnee from the 1964 convention which nominated Barry Goldwater on the first ballot, according to Congressional Quarterly's statistics. One out of 50 is a Negro.